This Valentine’s Day, BBC Radio 4 will pair two original comedy specials exploring the highs and lows of searching for love: Fatiha El-Ghorri’s real-life journey back into romance after divorce, and Regency renegade Lady Clementine's foray into the world of modern dating.
A Match Made Inshallah
14th February at 23:00, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
42-year-old, twice-divorced stand-up comedian Fatiha El-Ghorri is looking for love and ready to date - and she wants us all to be her wingman.
Mixing stand-up, commentary, and the actual date itself, we will hear Fatiha’s deepest thoughts, hopes, dreams, and judgements as we join her every step of the way through the dating minefield.
Credits:
Written & Performed by Fatiha El-Ghorri
Producer: Laura Grimshaw
Executive Producers: Jon Holmes & Carrie Rose
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
Lady Clementine Is Looking for Love
14th February at 23:15, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
Join Regency renegade Lady Clementine on her increasingly desperate quest to find love as she enters the world of modern dating. She’s tried everything to bag a man before her 27th birthday - wandering the armoury looking confused, bloodletting (just to feel something), and propositioning all her cousins (just the beefcakes, mind you). But disturbingly, nothing has worked – yet.
Part poet, part arsonist and described as if “Florence Pugh played Mr Bean in a corset”, Lady Clem is endearingly delusional and catastrophically self-absorbed. Like a Jane Austen novel that’s had too much gin, and far too much laudanum, she simply cannot fathom why love isn’t knocking down her door.
So now, she’s attempting her last resort - celebrity dating.
Enter her first date (semi-willingly), actor Charlie Rowe. Her mission? To find out if he could be ‘The One’ and save her from spinsterdom. Can the trenches of modern dating played out in Lady Clem’s crumbling Regency world really be the path to romantic bliss?
Credits:
Written, Created by & Starring Rosalie Minnitt
With special guest Charlie Rowe
Produced by Alison Vernon-Smith & Ella Blaxill
Additional material: Tristan Robinson
Sound Engineer: David Thomas
Executive Producer: Eve Streeter
A Raconteur Studios production for BBC Radio 4
